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![]() He’s played by several real cats and an animatronic one, and he too is best when he’s allowed to do simple cat things, rather than the requisite superhero-cat things.Ĭaptain Marvel is acceptably entertaining, and already it has gotten the kind of inadvertent advance marketing a studio-in this case, Disney-can only hope for. There’s also a wonderful marmalade cat, Goose. Jackson, his skin made young and plasticky by what now passes for movie magic) and reconnects with an old Air Force colleague, Maria Rambeau, played by Lashana Lynch, who has some of the finest moments in the film-maybe because she’s entrusted with the job of just being a real person instead of a walking signboard for all womankind’s total, ass-kicking awesomeness. There, she meets a pre-eyepatch Nick Fury (Samuel L. In pursuit of the Skrull, Vers lands on a strange planet known as C-53, though we immediately recognize it as Earth-specifically Los Angeles-of the 1990s. The Krees’ biggest enemy? A race of shapeshifters known as the Skrull, led by Talos (Ben Mendelsohn), who hope to take over the whole galaxy, or the solar system, or something. We learn she is a Kree, part of a race of noble warriors, and her name is Vers, pronounced “Veers.” Vers is being trained in all the usual combat moves and “snatch the pebble from my hand” philosophies by a stern, elegant superior, who goes by the not-so-elegant name Yon-Rogg (Jude Law). Not long after, we see a different version of her, a warrior in a molded uniform. Wendy Lawson, and she’s played by Annette Bening.īut we know immediately that there’s something different about Carol, because the blood dripping from her nose is blue. When we first see Larson’s Carol, she appears to have crash-landed in some sandy, forlorn landscape with her is a woman who appears to be a colleague and mentor-later we’ll find out her name is Dr. Carol gains superhuman powers after an accident (isn’t that always the way?), though the movie-directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, best known for their 2006 collaboration Half Nelson-fills in the backstory gradually, in a trickily constructed series of flashbacks. Brie Larson plays the title character who, before she becomes superhero-marvelous, is an Air Force pilot named Carol Danvers. But it’s also one of the limitations of Captain Marvel. ![]() ![]() That way, no one will ever think of you as weak. The idea is that it’s best just to bash your way through everything, just as so many guys do. They tell us little about whether a woman has any sense of judgment or style or true intelligence. And while we know that little girls (or boys, for that matter) might not rush out to see an earnest biopic of, say, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt or Margaret Sanger, does our sense of the power and capability of women always have to be filtered through a highly fictionalized superhero universe-as if that were the only way we could possibly bring ourselves to register the value of what women can bring to the table? Words like badass and kick-ass, used to describe women, have been trotted out so often that they’ve come to mean nothing. And there’s no reason we shouldn’t be seeing women superheroes on-screen Lord knows there are enough guys. ![]() Is anyone else getting tired of role models? I don’t mean real-life people who are doing estimable work every day, like Ruth Bader Ginsburg (although even her recent commodification, through no fault of her own, threatens to flatten some of her dimensions), but virtuous fictional women who are put up before us as a jaunty reminder that “Girls can do anything!” Girls can do anything and, like all children, young girls can have moments of self-doubt, times when they need reassurance.
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